US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (June 21) equated his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with 'dictators' as he addressed a Democratic Party donors reception in the presence of journalists.
SAN FRANCISCO — United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday equated his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with"dictators" as he addressed a Democratic Party donors reception in the presence of journalists.
"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment is he didn't know it was there," Mr Biden said.Mr Biden's remarks come days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing aimed at re-establishing lines of communication in order to avoid conflict between the two global powers.
Still on the subject of China and Mr Xi, Mr Biden said"we're in a situation now where he wants to have a relationship again."The US president did bring up another prickly point regarding communist-ruled China: a recent summit in which leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States – known as the Quad group – sought to boost peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific maritime region.
"What he was really upset about was that I insisted that we unite the... so-called Quad," Mr Biden said.
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